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Explore the latest science non-fiction books and sci-fi novels, plus science and technology-related theatre, exhibitions, games, movies and TV programmes with reviews and recommendations from Â鶹´«Ã½.

burning sticks

Life

A new history of cultural big ideas looks to the East for solace

To create a less divisive world, Jeremy Lent's The Patterning Instinct wants to get rid of the Western split between animalistic urges and rational control

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TV Apollo 8

Space

First mission to the moon: The real lesson

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mammoth

Life

Synthetic biology’s ties to our humanity let it elude definition

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Tannoys

Technology

The Truth Value

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MetLife Tower

Environment

Final demands: We explore sci-fi’s unworldly money troubles

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art gallery queue

Technology

Will technology help or hinder access to famous art?

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US-Mexico border

Life

Borderwall as Architecture will polarise opinion on Trump’s wall

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Beatie Wolfe

Humans

Augmented reality brings Beatie Wolfe’s new songs to life

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Artwork of Joseph Hooker

Environment

Joseph Hooker: The travelling man who became Emperor of Botany

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Woman holding objects

Humans

A Museum of Modern Nature: Your chance to be a science curator

How do you feel about nature in 2017? Find an object, a photo or jot down some thoughts – and take them to London’s Wellcome Collection for a DIY exhibition

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Humans

How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes

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Environment

We may have the evolution of beauty completely wrong

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Humans

Deviate attempts to alter the way we perceive the world

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Environment

The continuing mystery behind the cuteness of tame animals

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